Word: bucked
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...nationally accredited, national guidelines stipulate that it require concentrators to take at least 20 courses in the field. If the deadline were to be pushed back, potential concentrators would find it difficult, if not impossible, to complete all 20 courses required for graduation. But if DEAS decided to buck a delay and maintain the current declaration deadline, potential concentrators would tend to gravitate toward concentrations that allowed an attractive extra semester’s grace period—a result that would unfairly discourage students from concentrating in engineering...
Today, at least two Harvard-based acts are trying to buck the trends...
...shame that the poor production values of the book underserve O's fine artwork. He draws in a delicate style of highly realistic pen work, filled with careful detail taking particular delight in the variety of people's comical facial characteristics such as broken noses, buck teeth and wide foreheads. Although the printing is clear and the lines are sharp, there are no margins around the artwork, so the panels often bleed into the gutter of the spine. Sometimes you have to press the book with the palm of your hand to read the words. Dialogue has also been carelessly...
...Ivies have had a significant chance of taking home the hardware. The Payton Award, which was established in 1987, boasts several future NFL players as recipients including Steve McNair, Brian Westbrook, Brian Finneran, Jamie Martin, John Friesz, and Dave Meggett. Cal Poly defensive end Chris Gocong claimed the Buck Buchanan Award as I-AA’s best defensive player, after a season in which he recorded 19 sacks and 79 tackles. Princeton defensive back Jay McCareins finished sixth in the voting, and Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie, who missed part of the stretch run with an injury, came in 16th...
...delights in nicknames: backstage last week before his big speech on Iraq, Bush called Richard Haass, chairman of the august Council on Foreign Relations, "Sheriff"--a play on the title of Haass's book, The Reluctant Sheriff. Pals visiting from Midland, Texas, this month thought they were there to buck up their old friend; instead, they found him relaxed and unperturbed. "The President believes he's serving at this time for a reason--that his instincts, experience and convictions are suited for big challenges," says Austin-based strategist Mark McKinnon. Or as Bush...